snubn.1
/snʌb/, U.S. /snəb/ I. An act of snubbing; a rebuke, check, or related uses.† 2. A check, stop, stay, hindrance. Obsolete.
1.
a. An act or instance of snubbing; a remark or action intended to repress or rebuke a person.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of
admonishingc1350
reproofc1400
fliting1435
rebuke?a1439
snibc1450
reprehensiona1500
redargution1514
remorda1529
piece of one's mind1536
check1541
snuba1556
rebuking1561
boba1566
sneap1600
snipping1601
reprimand1636
repriment1652
rubber1699
slap1736
twinkation1748
rap1777
throughgoing1817
dressing-down1823
downset1824
hazing1829
snubbing1841
downsetting1842
raking1852
calling1855
talking toc1875
rousting1900
strafe1915
strafing1915
raspberry1919
rousing1923
bottle1938
reaming1944
ticking-off1950
serve1967
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > instance of
humiliation1526
snub1748
set-down1780
squabash1818
a slap in (or on) the face, in the eye, on the wrist1861
throwdown1887
put-down1932
a kick in the pants1933
ass-kicking1943
a kick in the teeth1972
bitch slap1987
a1556 T. Cranmer in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 562 Although in the meane season you suffre some snubbes..for the same, yet one day He will requite altogether.
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. v. 238 When euer anie snubbes and checkes in worde or countenaunce vndeserued arise.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 470 In which Tragedie London..had now and then a part, and had many a snubbe at the kinges hand.
a1688 J. Bunyan Israel's Hope Encouraged in Wks. (1852) I. 589 This word ‘let’ is sometimes used by way of rebuke and snub.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xl. 161 I..must have been accustomed to snubs and rebuffs from the affluent.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 269 When we endeavour to analyse it, the immediate effect of a snub is to induce a feeling of deprivation and exposure.
1885 Manch. Examiner 11 Mar. 5/5 Mr. Gladstone..administered to the most presumptuous member of the House a proper snub.
b. plural. As int., expressing total indifference or contempt. slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
1934 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 35 130 Prep~school slang..snubs interj. accompanied by making a long nose.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. vi. 135 Now I shall tell her I have had it straight from a real artist, and snubs to her.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which
lockeOE
floodgatec1230
stopc1508
staya1533
snub1581
prevention1584
embarment1606
allay1607
spar1614
counterchecka1616
gag1618
preventivea1639
check1661
preventative1691
embargo1692
closed door1934
policeman1951
block-
1581 T. Lawson Orchet (Lansd. 208) ii. xiv. f. 142v Mortimer..in all haist pursued ye Saxons And gaue thame snobbes wt his Britons.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 18 Thriuing without snub he will ouerlay your grafted Stocke much.
1672 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 248 Exchequer stopt from issuing forth moneyes to pay debts for this year, a snub to trade.
3. U.S. A sudden check given to a rope or cable in running out; a post or stake enabling this to be done.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
II. Something that snags or checks.
4. A snag or stub. rare.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part > rough
scrag1567
snag1586
snub1590
snug1665
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment
stobc1420
end1481
stump1516
fragment1531
stuba1533
remainder?1570
remain1572
fag1582
snub1590
remnant1597
butt1612
heeltap1776
hagsnar1796
tag-end1807
shank1828
nuba1834
nubbin1857
snar1892
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence > uneven or accidental
snag1586
snub1590
tooth1612
rag1683
tit1884
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G6v Lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All armd with ragged snubbes and knottie graine.
1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 220 Not so much as an ole scrubbin'-brush or a snub of soap.
5. Mechanics ? = snug n.1 2. Also figurative.
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1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 19/2 The swings are attached to the frame by means of snubs.., which are bolted vertically to the lower ends of the swings.
1973 R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led p. xiii A man who cannot put a snub on his temper had better leave horses alone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† snubn.2
Obsolete. rare.
A sob.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > sobbing > a sob
yeskeOE
sobbingc1300
sobc1374
throb1579
singult1590
snub1737
singultus1824
yoop1847
1737 W. Shenstone Poems upon Var. Occasions 20 He..with Snubs profound, and heaving Breast,..does declare His grievous Wrongs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
snubn.3adj.
/snʌb/, U.S. /snəb/ A. n.3
1. A snub nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > types of nose
snoutc1330
hawk-nose1534
bottlenose1553
saddle nose?c1599
snut-nose1603
tooter1638
bridgea1658
hook-nose1687
button1696
snub nose1724
pug nose1769
Roman1821
Grecian nose1830
snub1830
potato-nose1853
squash nose1882
number six nose1923
1830 F. Marryat Pacha xv As my father's nose was aquiline, and mine is a snub.
1842 R. H. Barham Aunt Fanny in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 142 She turn'd up her dear little snub at ‘the Man’.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. xi. 266 Her nose between the mild retroussé and the decided snub.
2. Geometry. A snub polyhedron or polytope.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > of more than three dimensions
polyhedroid1880
tesseract1888
polytope1908
snub1948
1948 H. S. M. Coxeter Regular Polytopes viii. 151 (heading) The snub {3, 4, 3}.
1952 Cundy & Rollett Math. Models iii. 94 It can be proved..that..there are only thirteen Archimedean solids, two of which occur in two forms. Those two are the two ‘snubs’.
1971 M. J. Wenninger Polyhedron Models iii. 179 Great inverted snub icosidodecahedron. This polyhedron is another snub that is simpler in construction than most of the others in this set.
B. adj.
1. Of the nose: Short and turned up.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose
cammed?c1350
camoisc1380
snatteda1387
camoisedc1515
flat1560
hawked1577
rising1606
simous1634
aquiline1646
Roman1665
snoutya1685
suspense1697
rhinocerical1710
rhinocerotic1755
Bardolphian1756
cock-up1763
bridgeless1772
retroussé1802
snubbed1802
snubbish1828
snubby1828
snipish1834
snub1843
pugged1847
puggisha1849
tip-tilted1872
saddleback1897
beak-sharp1933
spitzy1968
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 197 That order of nose on which the envy of mankind has bestowed the appellation ‘snub’.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford i Her nose was unformed and snub.
1886 J. E. C. Welldon tr. Aristotle Rhetoric i. 30 The aquiline or snub character of a nose.
2. Snub-nosed.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having
cammed?c1350
camoised1393
nosed?1440
hook-nosed1519
snat-nosed1519
flat-nosed1530
bottle-nosed1566
chamoy-nosed1598
saddle-nosed1598
swine-snouted1600
camois-nosed1601
round-nosed1611
nosy1620
flat-nose1636
simous1656
sharp-nosed1675
tutty-nosed1681
Roman-nosed1688
snut-nosed1706
snub-nosed1725
camois1745
blunt-nosed1772
pug-nosed1788
snipy1825
button-nosed1830
nip-nosed1831
leptorrhinian1878
leptorrhine1880
snub1883
knob-nosed1886
long-nose1896
Tartar-nosed1897
Ally Sloper1901
beaky-nosed1923
1883 G. Meredith Poems & Lyrics 39 The snub kids Upon hindlegs went sportive.
3. Geometry. Used to designate certain symmetrical polyhedra and polytopes; in general, they have no mirror symmetry and occur in enantiomorphic pairs. [translating Latin sīmus squashed (Kepler Harmonices Mundi (1619) V. ii. xxviii. 62).] A snub cube has as its faces 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles; a snub dodecahedron has 12 pentagons and 80 equilateral triangles: they are more nearly spherical than the cube and dodecahedron to which Kepler related them, hence the name.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > of more than three dimensions
tesseractic1888
snub1934
polytopal1966
1934 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 338 We might symbolize such a snub polytope by ringing all the dots in the graph. [Note] The word ‘snub’ is a free translation of Kepler's simus.
1952 Cundy & Rollett Math. Models iii. 101 (caption) Snub cube.
1952 Cundy & Rollett Math. Models iii. 108 (caption) Snub dodecahedron.
1971 M. J. Wenninger Polyhedron Models i. 32 The snub dodecahedron. This polyhedron has the same relation to the regular dodecahedron that the snub cube has to the regular hexahedron.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
snubv.1
/snʌb/, U.S. /snəb/ 1. † c. To take up sharply or severely; to order about in a sharp fashion. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To check, reprove, or rebuke in a sharp or cutting manner; in later use, to treat or receive (a person, suggestion, etc.) in a way calculated to repress or mortify.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
(a)
figurative.1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 309 The force of Naturall Conscience:..will bee sometimes snubbing, and stinging, and lashing, and vexing him.(b)1861 ‘Holme Lee’ Warp & Woof I. 30 Ursula..snubbed it as she would have snubbed any plan that did not originate with herself.1882 in Royal Geogr. Soc. Suppl. Papers I. i. 117 The stream now..runs in rock-strewn whirls and races which snub any question about its navigability.1891 Spectator 2 May Nothing could be more foolish than to snub voluntary effort.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lviii. 17 They sal snube [v.r. snyb] þaim, þat will not be converted.
1483 Cath. Angl. 347/2 To Snubbe.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pii/1 To Snubbe, arguere culpare.
1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xv.) f. 57 Wee see the great..goodnesse of God,..neuer snubbing any childe of his for imperfection of faith.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. ii. 40 Do not you fall on him, Medley, and snub him. Sooth him up in his extravagance!
1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 6 When they see the Son curbing the Father, or the Daughter snubbing the Mother.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. i. 9 I often snub Hal..for fear of his getting out of my hands.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. xv. 265 Mr. Turnbull occasionally throwing in a word, and each time snubbed by his wife.
1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. viii. 187 I ventured to address him, and was most decidedly snubbed.
b. absol. To employ snubbing; †to scold.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold
scold1377
chide1393
channerc1480
ratea1529
chowre1567
flite1568
to scold it outa1592
to speak or look daggers1603
snub1694
to read the Riot Act1784
row1843
rouse1896
roust1901
to bust (a person's) balls1946
to bust on1961
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] > employ humiliating tactics
snub1787
1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer iii. i. 34 I acquiesce, my Lady; but don't snub so loud.
1787 H. Walpole Let. 9 Feb. in Corr. (1965) XXXIII. 560 You tell me too that I snub and sneer, I protest I thought I was the snubee.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 269 But there need be nothing cruel in the man who snubs.
1907 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 678/1 The power to snub is a weapon of defence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > order about
snuba1797
to order about (also around)1853
sergeant-major1931
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iv. 34 A fierce Hero, that frights his Mistriss, snubs up Kings,..and does what he will.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 271 To censure merely what another Person writes; to twitch, snap, snub up, or banter.
a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. (1798) I. 160 She did not like to go to service, to be snubbed about, after being her own mistress.
2. † a. To check or restrain (a thing); to prevent from having free course or development. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development
repressa1413
snub1583
smothera1616
stranglea1616
mither1847
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > prevent from free course or development
repressa1413
snub1583
smothera1616
stranglea1616
throttle1825
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vi. 284 Euerie Christian is to take heede..to snubbe the course of Sathan at the first.
1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xxxviii.) f. 151 Beware we then euer of discontent, and snubbe it betimes.
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 186 Wisedome..snubbeth and crosseth all vnlawfull designes.
a1688 J. Bunyan Christ Compl. Saviour in Wks. (1692) 381/2 He is Holy, and so will snub their Lusts.
b. Nautical and U.S. To check or stop (a rope or cable) suddenly while running out; to stop or bring up (a boat, etc.) sharply or suddenly, esp. by passing a rope round a post; to fasten or tie (up).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > bring to a standstill
astintc700
stinta1330
arrestc1374
stopc1440
stowc1440
stote1489
to pull up1623
to draw up1765
halt1805
to bring to a standstill1809
snub1841
paralyse1933
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific ways
windc1550
veer1590
veer1604
rousea1625
heave1626
overhaul1626
ease1627
pay1627
reeve1627
unbend1627
to come up1685
overhale1692
to pay away1769
surge1769
render1777
to pay out1793
to round down1793
to set upon ——1793
swig1794
veer1806
snake1815
to side out for a bend1831
rack1841
snub1841
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > bring to a standstill
to bring to1753
to bring up1820
snub1841
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie
tiec1000
halchc1400
lacec1405
cable?1507
twitch1612
lash1624
wup1808
snub1888
zip-tie1985
(a)
(b)1888 Cent. Mag. Mar. 660/1 He is taught this by being violently snubbed up..the first two or three times that he feels the noose settle round his neck.1895 Outing 27 224/1 I kept him snubbed up too closely for him to get a start.1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy x. 153 We took a guy line from the wagon and snubbed it to a tree.1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 124 Snub, to check a rope suddenly.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Snubbing her, bringing a ship up suddenly with an anchor.
1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 483/2 A deck-hand forward to ‘snub’ her in the locks and take a line to the tow-path.
3.
a. To check the growth of; to shorten; to cut, nip, or break off, the end of (a thing). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > check the growth of
snub1615
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > make short(er) [verb (transitive)]
short1398
shorten1530
stump1596
snub1615
to take up1624
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > the end of something
snub1615
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 35 Either snub his top with a nip betwixt your finger and your thumb, or with a sharpe knife.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 81 The yeere was (as yette) but younge and the field indifferent good and not much snubbed.
1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) i. 96 The Trees..whose Heads and Boughs I have observ'd..to be so snub'd by the Winds, as if their Boughs and Leaves had been par'd or shaven off on that side.
1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. I. 161 I therefore hung the handkerchief on the branch of a tree, that I snubbed off short for the purpose.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 136 You should ha' putten some salt on, it would ha' snubbed them [sc. weeds] anyhow.
b. To make snub-nosed or snub.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [verb (transitive)] > types of nose
snub1796
1796 Mod. Gulliver 186 Get snubb'd i' th' nose—or haply singe our beards.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 109 They laughed and snubbed their handkerchiefs to their noses.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
aschrenchc885
blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
beswike971
blencha1000
blenka1000
belieOE
becatchc1175
trokec1175
beguile?c1225
biwrench?c1225
guile?c1225
trechec1230
unordainc1300
blink1303
deceivec1320
feintc1330
trechetc1330
misusea1382
blind1382
forgo1382
beglose1393
troil1393
turnc1405
lirt?a1425
abuse?a1439
ludify1447
amuse1480
wilec1480
trump1487
delude?a1505
sile1508
betrumpa1522
blear1530
aveugle1543
mislippen1552
pot1560
disglose1565
oversile1568
blaze1570
blirre1570
bleck1573
overtake1581
fail1590
bafflea1592
blanch1592
geck?a1600
hallucinate1604
hoodwink1610
intrigue1612
guggle1617
nigglea1625
nose-wipe1628
cog1629
cheat1637
flam1637
nurse1639
jilt1660
top1663
chaldese1664
bilk1672
bejuggle1680
nuzzlec1680
snub1694
bite1709
nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]
deceivec1330
defraud1362
falsec1374
abuse?a1439
fraud1563
visure1570
cozen1583
coney-catch1592
to fetch in1592
cheat1597
sell1607
mountebanka1616
dabc1616
nigglea1625
to put it on1625
shuffle1627
cuckold1644
to put a cheat on1649
tonya1652
fourbe1654
imposturea1659
impose1662
slur1664
knap1665
to pass upon (also on)1673
snub1694
ferret1699
nab1706
shool1745
humbug1750
gag1777
gudgeon1787
kid1811
bronze1817
honeyfuggle1829
Yankee1837
middle1863
fuck1866
fake1867
skunk1867
dead-beat1888
gold-brick1893
slicker1897
screw1900
to play it1901
to do in1906
game1907
gaff1934
scalp1939
sucker1939
sheg1943
swizz1961
butt-fuck1979
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus ii. ii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 93 For th' old Men ha' now open'd a Passage for my Tricks to make Incursions, and snub 'em o' their Mony.
5. intransitive. To press bluntly.
ΚΠ
1846 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) (at cited word) I felt the cold nose of the captain of the band [of sharks] snubbing against my side.
Derivatives
ˈsnubbable adj. Cf. unsnubbable adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective] > able to be
snubbable1908
1908 L. A. Tollemache Old & Odd Mem. 130 So wholesomely snubbable as just to stop short of being bores.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
snubv.2
Now dialect and U.S.
intransitive. To sob.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > sob
yesklOE
soba1200
snobc1300
yeskenc1450
throb1557
snub1621
sike1841
1621 T. Bedford Sinne unto Death 50 He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.
1671 in S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ
1880 Scribner's Monthly June 300/2 I heerd her a-cryin' an' a-snubbin', all night.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1a1556
n.21737
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